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Senator Evarss and Mark Twain.

Senator Evarts has undoubtedly pre-
sided over more banquets than any other
man in New York. His old fashioned
rolling collar and his finely plated shirt
bosom are familiar sights to all Of the
walters at Dclmonico's, the Hoffman or
the Brunswick. The urbane senator en-
joys good dinner and good company, and
with rare forbearance he never infict5 O
long speech upon his fellow diners. Even
his abnormal tendency to long and In
tricate sentences is curbed upon social
occasions Mr.. Evarts' special weakness
as presiding officer Is the interfering Of
facetious comments on the efforts Of the
other speakers. He delights to diffuse
nlirth and good fellowship, and his face
tiousness never has the sting of acerbity.
Occasionally In attempting to score point
on q fellow speaker he suffers the fate of
the boomerang thrower. An instance In
point occurred at the New England Society
dinner last winter. Mark Twain had just
finished an extraordinarily piquant ad-
dress when Mr.. Eyarts arose, showed both
Of his hands down into his trousers pockets
as Is his habit, and laughingly remarked:
ssDoesn't it strike this company as little
unusual that professional humorist
should be funEy2'
Mark Twain waited until the 1dhghter
excited by this sally had subsidized and then
drawled out: Doesn't it strike this COM
pany as little unusual that a lawyer
should have his hand In his own pocket"'
New York Times,
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The Worlds Greatest Railroad.

Did you ever stop to think what great
corporation this Pennsylvania Railway
is? Of the 5000 miles of railway in
the United States itoperates 1000. Of
$4,000 locomotives in the country it
owns 1900. OF 100000 cars of all kinds
100000 run on its lines. It's share of
the gross earningu of all American rail
ways-$75O,O 100000 year-is ten per
cent, or 81 100000 week. Every year
it carries 30,OO0,000 passengers and
6O,0OO,oOO tons of freight, the tonnage
being one.sixth of the estimated total for
all railways in the country. To carry on
its vast operations an army of 1000 men
is employed.
Hitherto our Chicago railways have
been the most ambitious in America.
The vigorous manner in which they have
reached their iron fingers out into the
West has been simply marvellous. AL.
ready at she base of the Rocky Noun.
tains, itia predicted for the Northwestern,
the ST. Paul and Burlington-the great
trio-that another decade will see their,
locomotives taking drink from the Pa
ciic. So rapid are their strides, inde5ss
that the Pennsylvania mustage ia
the West and conquer net or
Lo soon compelled loyield dsSaS mr. tho m
title of greatest railway s1I ~ r. world -
Ct;cuqo Hcrald~ssp ~ ei'' "0i'
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Findlne Rest in Gotham.

Distinguished men must find New
York restful, as SO many come here to live
after they have passed middle age and
been for years objects of interest in small
er places. Here even the great man Is
one of q crowd. There are distinguished
soldiers, engineers, doctors, merchants,
writer's, scientists who come to the me-
tropolis to spend the last years of their ex-
istence after the battle of life has been
fought and won elsewhere. Such men as
Gen. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert
Collyer, Benjamin H. Bristow, Whitelaw
Reid, Roscoe Conkling, with the whole
world from which to select, choose New
York as tho most fitting and desirable
place for home. In any other city O
distinguished man is conspicuous, but
hero ho can walk the streets and attract
no attention, he can take seat in street
car without being stared out Of counte-
nance by all the other passengers, he can
enjoy life, for distinguished men are COM
mon on the streets, and the inhabitants
of New York are broad and cosmopolitan,
and believe in each man attending strictly
to his own business unmolested by all
others.-New York Cor. Cleveland
lender
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The Best Fire Escape.

a commercial drummer Of my acquaint-
ance who studies each fire escape with On
interest born Of several exciting scenes
assures me that the best fire escape in the
world can be tucked away in ones pocket
and carried in travelling bag. 1t con-
sists simply of q strong hemp cord, with
knots every few feet. When the fire
breaks out tic one end to your bedstead
and throw the other end out Of the win
dow; the chances are ninety-nine in g
hundred that nothing will interfere with
IN easy descent.-Broo]llyn Eagle.
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WAlTlNa.

They have gone through lifo together,
They have brayed its stormy weather,
Many year.
Time has f1lched from beauty's treasures,
But Love scorns the heard he measures
With leer.
MID the worlds turmoil and fretting,
They'd no tears and vain regretting
For tho past;
all their troubles firmly breastlng,
Thsy have found the time fol-, resting,
Sweet at last.
There aro graves upon the meadow
Baby forms that lie in shadow,
Dark and still:
AhI they felt LIES fountain drying,
When they looked on baby, dying,
But--'uThy wilr'
sNow, with pulses throbbing steady.
Hand In hand they're waiting, ready.
Not sigh
For time that's swiftly feeting,
There viii be O joyous meeting
By, and bye.
Hollis ". Field.
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The Lime Kiln Club.

.sIt am my painful dooty to inform dis
club dat Brudder Arbustus jenkins has
passed from airth away" said Brother
Gardner when the triangle had ceased to
toll. "HeRw an honorary membec of
dis club, hbin' in de stait Of North Caro-
nny, an ne was only 15 cents behind on
his dues. It kin not be said Of Arbustns
dat he was either statesman, poet,
philosopher, philanthropist or scholar.
He was simply an eberyday man, who
did not shrink eandwise when he got
wet.
"As citizen of de United States he
did not go braggin' aroun' about our
bein de greatest nash1n on airth, but he
had hickory club laid away for any
country which might knock dc chip off
our shoulder.
GAS an elector he went to de polls ebery
time dar' was chance to vote, an some
times when deir wasn't, an If he split his
ticket it was bekase he was deeply inter-
ested in dc matter of honest guv'ment.
"As o laborer he was worthy Of his
hire. When he wasn't Workin' he was
thinkin' fur de benefit of his boss. If de
boss didn't know dis it was his own fault.
GAS naybur he nebber borrowed
coffee an sugar widout maxim q mark
on de. tin cup, 30 he could return good
measure.
GAS member of de community in
which ne dwelt he upheld de law in de
daytime an stole watermelyons under
hyer of darkness, thereby settin' good
example for de young
.:ls"As church member he prayed soft
an''low, an he was half a line Behind all
de rest In de singin'. In case he happened
to be cotched wild ham belonging to
somebody else no reflechuns could be cast
on de church.
GAS husband he bossed de cabin, an
as father he brung his chill'en up to
fear de law an respect ole aige.
eve shall hang out the usual emblem
Of mourning cn de outer doah, an we
shall feel O bit sorry dat a fair to medium
man has passed away. Dat will be all.
We shan't pass no resolushuns to send
to his wife, who knowed him better dan
anybody else, nor will rye claim dat our
heartfelt syn,pathies go out fur de chill
len, who am probably no better dan any
body else's. It am huff for US dat we
kin say Arbustus was up to the aiverge,
I'M dat death could have tooken q wusse-
man an not haf tried. detroit Free
Press
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What to Do with Criminals.
But what should we do with the thugs,
Dluggers, assassins-men who reyel In
blood and wounds and death9


gluggers, assassins-men who reyel In
blood and wounds and death9
This:
Let the United States government, In
conjunction with the state governments,
buy an island in the Pacific ocean, guard
it with gunboats, and thereto send the
great host Of murderous scoundrels who
Lave bean condemned to the scafold, who
have been sentenced for life to the peni-
tentiary for bloodshed, who lurk and lie
in wait In our cess pools and slime pits,
with revolver and dagger; all who are
known to the police us dangerous char
acters.
Let all rape devils be sent there, and
all who spit upon and trample the eternal
laws OF God and man under foot.
s'They will kill each other" you may
protest.
Let them killi
You, nor /, nor any of Us will be re-
sponsible for that. Our government will
not be responsible for our blood.
The better element that Is In oil men
will assert itself in the felon community,
and in time they will attain state OF
civilization equal to their own.
In mercy, let us do this, remembering
that the environments and ancestry Of
these scoundrels were not the same as
ours, and their respectability is many de-
grees less than our own.-Will Hubbard
Herman in Chicago Journal.
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u. S. Grant as, a Farmer.

When Capt. Grant returned from
Oregon, where he had resigned his COM
mission, his father-in-law presented his
wife with sixty acres Of land and three
negroes-two men and q woman. Capt.
Grant went to work in good earnest, and
with his two negro men dug cellar,
hauled the stones for the walls, stoned it
up, cut and hauled the logs with which
the house was built, and then split the
shingles with which 1t was roofed. At
the raising his neighbors turned out to
help him, and in due time he was the oc-
cupant of his own house.
His first occupation was to clear field,
and he was certainly an adept at chopping
wood. AS the winter came on he hauled
this wood into ST. Louis, and had, Of
course, good team, bay and a gray,
which he boasted could draw heavier
load than any other horses in Che settle
raent. At first his neighbors thought 1t
was, only boast, but after going along
the road with him with lighter loads they
found that he was an authority on horses.
He never would ride, though, on his load,
saying that the team has enough to draw
without carrying a lazy driver
His first crops were corn, wheat, potatoes
and few garden vegetables. He raised
200 bushels of potatoes to the acre, and it
was his boast that with his team he
hauled seventy bushels Of wheat which
he had raised to st. Louis in one load.
Wearing pair of old blue army trowsers,
tucked into high, heavy boots, o flannel
shirt, an old undress blue sack coat with
the military buttons replaced by plain
ones, and a slouch hat which turned up
before and down behind, he did not much
resemble q ''gentleman farmer" The
guests at the Planters house used to
stare.a little when he was invited in to
dinner with old comrades, toward whom
his heart warmed always.
On one occasion an officer who had
served with him, visiting st. Louis, drove
ont to see him and found him in his
wheat field in his shirt sleeves leading
three other men WHO, like himself, were
swinging cradles. But the land was poor
and the crops did not prove remunerative.
To aid him in supporting his family he
undertook the collection Of accounts for
some Of his neighbors who had sold their
vegetables on credit to different parties in
the city, but he was not successful in dun
ning.-Ben: Perley Poore.
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Bacot's Best Liver Pills for Vertigo
and DVsnensia.

Ut. McGunsey & Co., Fonto Flora, NC,
says: One of our customers, MIR. Wesley
Conley, has suffered with vertigo for two
years. After trying the best physicians
without obtaining any relief, he says one
box of your Pills has almost entirely cured
him. Our friend, Mr.. Adolphus Browning,
has suffered for years with the dreadful dis
ease dyspepsia, and otter using one box of
your Pills says he cannot be without them
and orders another box. For sale by all
dealers in medicine. Sample package free
at HILL BROS. Drug Store,
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Hints for tho Dramatist.

The three or four hundred years that
have passed since adventures landed on
our shores and began the work Of Great
ing O nation have been filled with events
the records Of which should give On in
genious dramatist hints for plays without
number. Not until these are employed,
as records and traditions of their own
countries were employed by oil tho great
dramatists, shall we have q national
drama. Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Tnyleure
agree in saying, "The first business Of the
American stage is to develop national
drama Of it's own. Boston Transcript.
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Didn't Like to Say 1t.

A Texas paper says: 'fThero is q per-
nicious partizanship in the blind gregari-
business of q promiscuous multitude,
held to party allegiance by mere inertia
of habit and mechanical cohcsion.n Wa
have cften wondered If something Of this
kind hadn't affected the weather lately,
but we didn't exactly like to say so.
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No. GO, the StnYer.

t'The oldest locomotive now in use any,
where near Chicago remarked a rail
roader, lis No. 60 on the Illinois Central,
still making regular trips down the road.
She has been in use thirty-three years.
It is estimated that in that time she has
Travelled 1,G50,000 miles, or equal to
sixGy-six times around the globe. She
has hauled passenger trains, freight
trains, special trains, pay cars, gravel
trains and done switching. She has been
in several accidents, but was never badly
damaged. She has killed 'her man. half
q dozen times. The average life of q
locomotive is ten or twelve years, and SO
you can see that old No. go is slayer. !"
Chicago Herald,
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The Idle Capital Of the World.

A peculiar instance Of the immensity Of
property accumulation was seen when
Dublin, Ireland, company, Guinness &
Co.'s porter brewery advertised for
loan of 10000, 900. In reply they re-
ceived offers to the amount Of
e127 OOC, 900, or $685., 100000. "The
truth is The New York Chronicle re-
marks, ssthe amount Of idle capital in the
world to-day is almost without parallel"
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The schoolboys Of southern Maryland
have originated foot tournaments
Both on n Tear.

"Lucy, my daughter" exclaimed q
stern parent tho other morning to the eld-
est daughter, who wns very late In coming
down to breakfast, ''where did you spend
last EVENING"
II was ut chocolataire given by the
Homo Mission society, papa, ut Mrs.
G;nnbo's.'
"Indeed and where were you, Robcrt'
You came in very late. u
And Robert, whose eyes were red and
whose head felt us big rs q circus tent,
aaid he. had been OH chocolate tear too.
Chicago Tribune.
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Connects with train to and from Greer-
wood, Laurens and Spartanburg.
Connections at Augusta with Georgia,
South Carolina and Central Railroads. at
Spartanburg with A &c G. Air Line and
Asheville & Spartanburg r. r.
Tickets on sale at Anderson to all points
OF through rates. Baggage checked to des-
tination. e. T. CHARLTON, G. ?. A. +
w. ". STARR, Supt., Augusta, Ga.
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1t is believed Senator Camden will
be defeated for reelection in the West
Virginia legislature.
Charles Brunson, of Hampton coun-
ty, while butchering hog last week, had
bis thumb pierced with aspltnter, and the
blood of the hog entering the thumb,
blood poisoning followed from the effects
Of which he died in few days.
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COLLAGE Graduates in Jourpa1ism

The Boston press, represented by the six
leading dailies, employs forty-two jour
nalsts who are college graduates from
fourteen colleges. There are thirty col
lege educated mon on the editorial stuff of
the New York Sun.-Cincinnati Times
Star,
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THE AMERICAN DUEL.
A GERMAN CONTRIBUTOR EXPLAINS
JUST WHAT 1T MEANS.

Not Brutal ARRAY In Darlsened Room
Nor "Blaze Away" at Short Range.
Tho Decision OF Fate Suicides
Stain.
I SEQ the following copied in the The
World from one of your contemporaries:
II read In a dispatch from Berlin the
other dsy that o bill has been introduced
into the Reichstag to suppress dueling,
especially what Is known as the Ameri-
can method Now what is this Ameri-
can method2 Is 1t the gentle pastime Of
fighting with knives in dark room2 Is
it the brief and sanguinary contest with
shotguns at twenty PAGES? Or is 1t the
informal duel of the frontier, with Its
brief cartel: 'I'll kill you on sight, and
when you next come, come shootin'T
The cablegram Is strangely silent on
this important point. u
I am in q position to inform you that
the American duel, as practiced on the
continent of Europe, and especially In
Germany, is neither q brutal affray with
bowie knives in darkened room nor g.
"blaZe away" ut short range; it is some
thing more secret and terrible still, @
practice that has brought sorrow and
shame to the noblest families and cut
short the career of the most promising
men; it is death, self inflicted death by
lot Some time since tho startling intel
ligence was published TINT Professor B.,
of Berlin, talented and highly esteemed
young, man had been found dead in his
room, with pistol tightly clasped in his
hand and bullet hole in his forehead.
He had committed suicide. But what
could be the motive?
In easy If not brilliant circumstances,
handsome and engaging, on the threshold
of life, the highest honors within his
grasp, this young man goes to his last
account and leaves no trnce to elucidate
tho mystery. The world wonders for nine
days and then in the rush of frapidly pass
ing events the incidents forgotten: For
gotten save by one who knows and q few
sorrowing friends who conjecture.
The solution OF the mystery Is to be
found in the American duel
A love affair, in which two passionate,
high spirited young men lavish their at
tention upon the same lady; q deadly
insult offered and they conceive that the
world is not large enough to hold both.
One must die, and what surer and more
convenient method than to decide by lot
who shall take his own life?
The two enemies fnce each other with
flashing eyes and burning cheek. Words
have passed and insults offered which can
be drowned only in blood.
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THE DECISION OF FATE.

So be 1t. Let us step to the window;
the street is quiet and deserted. Let Us
observe the next passerby. If the first
ono to turn the corner be man, 1t Is l
If it be q woman, death is your portion
death by your own hand and before the
sun rises again.
Pale and gloomy they stand side by
side and await the doom sure to come
soon to one of them. One, two, three
minutes pass; it is so still In the apart
ment the ticking of clock upon the
mantel sounds loud and near. Then
black shadow is thrown across the walk
and-a woman moves around the corner,
her light footsteps sounding the death
knen of Professor B.
A slight shudder shakes the frame Of
the doomed man and the pnllor deepens
for moment. Then proudly and coldly
he bows to his adversary: "Fate has
selected me, Capt. A. You will hear
from me tomorrow"
And he is alone with his sad thoughts.
= But the clock beats out his life fast and
furious, and he has 80 much to do and
arrange before the rising sun shall look
upon his lfeless corpse. He may put his
affairs in order, but he must not reveal
his fate. Honor and the rules Of Ameri-
can duel forbid it.
Thus perished one of the brightest and
most promising young men in the most
enlightened capital of Europe in the latter
half of the Nineteenth century, leaving
the stain Of suicide upon his name.
This is by no means an isolated case, 1t
being well known that this method Of
dueling has been resorted to only too fire.
quently, and it is sud fact that the best
and most honorable men have often been
the victims.
While dueling will never and, for OBJ
vious reasons, can never be wholly sup
pressed in warlike nation like Germany,
1t Is to be hoped that this bloody game Of
chance called the American duel may
speedily be crushed and wiped OUT. G.
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
6.nIRT OF COMMON PLEAS.

John Z. Peoples, Plaintiff, against James X. Grit.
fin, James r. Vandiver and James a. Elgin, as
istratrix of the Estate of Mary A. South, de-
ceased, and Daniel D, Gentry, Defendants.-Sun.
mons for Reliet-C6mplaintn not Serred.
To the Defendants above named:
VTOU are hereby summoned and required to an
I swer the complaint In this action, which
is filed In the Office of the Clerk Of the Court
of Common Pleas at Anderson c. H., s. G.,
and to serve copy Of your answer TO the said
complaint on the subscribers at their office, Ander-
son C.H,s.C, within twenty days after the service
hereof exclusive of the day Of such servco and II
Aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint
Dated October 81, A. D. 1886: .,,
Plaintiffs Attorneys, Anderson C. H., S. G.
[sEALl NJ. 2. TREBLE, C.C.P.
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The Offering of bouquets to players in
the imperial theatres of Vienna has been
forbidden, on the ground that the practice
has grown to an absurd extent.
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t1est brides Detroit ever saw. She wore
q soft tulle gown and carried bunch OF
purple rhodoras. So George Truman .Ker-
chayn1 in Chfcano Times
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Ducklep,s Arnaca SaIye.

The Best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac.
ton, or money refunded. Price IS cents
per box. For sale by Hill Bros, Ander.
son. S. G.
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Cure Cold Ecct, 6sorlt, rheumatism,
Paralysis, Swollen Feet, etc. Tho
Peleg White Proprietary Co., 81 Church Street,
New York, Manufacturers. OF first class
druggists IclG
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Not 50 much of the spider leg style of
handwriting is seen now "in society" rs o
few years ago.
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